Henrik Jensen (musician)

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Henrik Jensen (* around 1975) is a Danish musician ( double bass , composition ) of modern jazz who works in London .

Live and act

Jensen came to London from Denmark in 1997 to study electric bass at the Musicians Institute . He eventually switched to the double bass and became a student of the Royal Academy of Music in the jazz course. During this time he studied with various bass teachers, including Jeff Clyne , Steve Watts , Jeremy Brown and Anders Jormin . In Great Britain he worked with jazz musicians such as Martin Speake , Pete Wareham , Stan Sulzmann , Asaf Sirkis and Roger Beaujolais . Jensen also leads his own quartet, Followed by Thirteen , which he founded in 2010. With this group - with Andre Canniere (trumpet), Esben Tjalve (piano) and Pete Ibbetson (drums) - he recorded the debut album Qualia (2013) with his own compositions , followed by the EP Blackwater (2016), which was honored by the Guardian found. Their sound sometimes suggests contemporary New York downtown jazz and sometimes the flexible swing hipness of an earlier era, wrote John Fordham. In 2020 Jensen and his quartet Followed by Thirteen released the album Affinity .

Jensen continues to work with the Berlin saxophonist Peter Ehwald , heard on Songs of Trees (2008) and Jensen / Ehwald (2011); also with Mauricio Velasierra, Joy Ellis ( Life On Land ), in the Will Butterworth Trio, the vocal trio The Puppini Sisters and in The Bilbo Trio with Antonio Fusco and Bruno Heinen .

Discographic notes

  • Blackwater (Jellymould Jazz, 2005), with Andre Canniere, Esben Tjalve, Antonio Fusco

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Fordham: Henrik Jensen's Followed by Thirteen: Blackwater review - fine solos and flexible swing. The Guardian, September 16, 2016, accessed March 17, 2020 .
  2. ^ Adrian Pallant: Henrik Jensen's Followed By Thirteen - “Affinity”. London Jazz News, March 16, 2020, accessed March 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 17, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Henrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1975